Adam's Peak

 

Sri Lanka's one of  highest a mountain, Adam's Peak (7,360 ft), is one of the most remarkable sights in the island nation, and was once thought to have the lord budda foot . A depression in the rocky summit resembles a huge footprint, which has been venerated as a sacred sigh from remote antiquity by many religions.

Sri Pada Sri Pada, also known as Adam’s Peak, is an ancient pilgrimage site that has long attracted thousands of pilgrims from all faiths. It is the pilgrimage to the sacred mountain, Sri Pada, popularly known in English as Adam’s Peak. This conical mountain is 7,360 feet high, soaring clear above the surrounding mountain ranges. According to history, when the Buddha visited Sri Lanka he placed one foot on the north of the royal city and the other on Sumana-Kuta (Adam’s Peak) fifteen yojanas, or about a hundred miles distant. The legendary evidence of Siam brings up that the Buddha left the print of his left foot on Adam’s Peak, and then, in one stride, strode across to Siam, (now Thailand) where he left the impression of his right foot. It is called Phra Sat, and its appearance is supposed to be like that of the footprint on Adam’s Peak and of similar size. Broad steps lead up to this walled enclosure containing the rock over which is a tower-like structure. The portion marked off as having the imprint of the Buddha’s foot is about five feet seven inches long and two feet seven inches broad.